BIB_ID
311530
Accession number
MA 1940.51
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[year not specified] Nov. 2.
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from John Ruskin to Mrs. Hewitt. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of James P. Magill in 1958.
Summary
Saying that he feels the way she does about Ireland and so he will not visit her there; discussing the nature of their friendship; saying how difficult it is to have a friendship with a married woman as he can never call her by "any familiar names;" saying that "the formal address always freezes me at once--and I never get off the ice however hard I try;" saying that he would like to find a way in which she might be of use to him, "for (though I can't make you understand the abstract principles of gratitude) I suppose you will admit that it helps very much towards liking people when one is grateful to them for help."
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